June 2026 (Vol. 8 Issue 2) List
Social Media and Sludge Content’s Correlation With Lectures
Lanna Schor
30/06/2026
Attention span in students has declined at an alarming rate, which is partly due to social media applications like TikTok. One current trend on TikTok that maintains attention is sludge content, which consists of two visual pieces of stimuli and contextual audio. This led me to question whether social ...
Emotion Regulation and Academic Stress in Adolescents: The Role of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression
Tianyu Bai
30/06/2026
Academic stress is a leading contributor to deteriorating mental health in adolescents, yet limited evidence examines this using adolescent-specific validated measures. This study addresses this gap by testing the relationship between cognitive reappraisal (CR) and expressive suppression (ES) and
Monitoring and Managing Inflammation in Professional Tennis: A Biomarker-based Review of Recovery Interventions
Reyansh Mohan Lal
30/06/2026
Inflammation is a necessary biological response to physical exertion, initiating muscle repair at the cellular level. However, in professional tennis, the compressed tournament calendar and back-to-back match schedules repeatedly trigger the inflammatory cycle before it has fully resolved, shifting the ...
Role of Quantum Cryptography in the Financial Sector: How is the World Preparing for a New Era of Computing?
Hamsini Mopuru
30/06/2026
Quantum computing is advancing rapidly and is expected to reshape the cybersecurity foundations of the financial sector. Modern financial systems rely heavily on classical public-key cryptography such as Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) and elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC), which are vulnerable to quantum ...
AI Assisted Computational Methods for Efficient Aerospace System Design
Arnav Dipak Patil
30/06/2026
Aerospace engineering is a field of engineering that involves the use of simulations, testing, and computational methods. To improve the efficiency and accuracy of Aerospace engineering, it is a viable option to consider the use of Artificial intelligence. This paper reviews the implementation of AI assisted ...
The Contradictory Preferences of Neurotic Individuals: Seeking Emotional Intensity While Avoiding Sensory Stimulation
Kate Takemoto
30/06/2026
Individuals high in neuroticism present an apparent paradox in their music-related behaviors: they simultaneously prefer emotionally intense and rebellious music genres while showing lower tolerance for high-volume auditory stimulation. Framed more precisely, however, this is less a genuine paradox than a ...
Economic Impact of the 2030 Commonwealth Games on Ahmedabad: A Qualitative Study
Yohaan Shodhan
30/06/2026
This paper examines the expected economic contribution of Ahmedabad’s 2030 Commonwealth Games bid and its sequenced 2036 Olympic bid, and asks whether sequential mega-event hosting can drive infrastructure-led urbanisation and long-term economic legacy in an emerging-economy context. ...
Platform Competition and Informal Retail Viability: Evidence from Quick Commerce Expansion in Mumbai
Ishan Satia
30/06/2026
Currently, Mumbai's urban grocery retail sector has been reshaped by the rapid growth of quick-commerce platforms offering ultra-fast delivery of everyday goods. This paper examines the way platform-based models have altered the competitive dynamics, affected the economic viability of informal ...
Algorithmic Media Trials and Digital Manipulation of Judicial Perception in India
Omyaa Trehan
30/06/2026
Social media platforms have dramatically shaped the connection between public opinion, media presentation and judicial proceedings in India. Criminal investigations and court cases are now a topic of discussion, including on social platforms like Instagram, X/Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, and YouTube, ...
Predicting Next-Year Homelessness Levels Using HUD Point-in-Time Data
Jaden Cheung
30/06/2026
This study investigates whether machine learning models can perform better than a simple persistence baseline when used to predict next-year homelessness using the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Point-in-Time dataset. The target variable is the next-year overall homelessness count by ...
Creating Social Value for Vulnerable Children in South Africa: A Social Return on Investment Analysis of Acres of Love
Anabelle Viljoen
30/06/2026
The extreme HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa has led to an acute child welfare crisis, leaving many children orphaned or abandoned. Acres of Love is a non-profit organization that attempts to alleviate this problem by using a unique family-based model of child care. However, there is no existing research about ...
Decoding Protein Misfolding: Advances In Prion Disease Pathogenesis, Biomarker Discovery, And Therapeutic Development
Tisha Sehrawat
30/06/2026
Prion diseases are among the class of transmissible neurodegenerative disorders that are universally fatal, and any disease mechanism involving misfolding of the native prion protein (PrP^C) into a pathogenic isoform (PrP^Sc). Examples of such disease states include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and fatal
Linear Quadratic Regulator based Controller Design for Vertical Attitude Adjustment with Thrust Vectoring
Seif Shebl
30/06/2026
This study investigates the control and adjustment of an aerospace airfoil’s vertical attitude in a flow field through Linear Quadratic Regulator controller design and Thrust Vector Control methods. Types of thrust vector control and controllers are investigated and evaluated against each other through the study of the ...
Modeling Naloxone Response in Simulated Opioid-Xylazine Overdose Scenarios: A Public Health Simulation Study
Hyunjun Ryoo
30/06/2026
In the United States, the overdose crisis has become a critical issue involving polysubstance combinations, especially with fentanyl mixed with xylazine, a non-opioid veterinary sedative not directly reversed by naloxone. This study addressed how xylazine involvement may affect simulated naloxone ...
Utilization of Commercial Peltier Thermoelectric Generators for Continuous Wearable Device Use
Lucas H. Chiang
30/06/2026
As wearable technology becomes increasingly integrated in areas of healthcare and common use, the demand for sustainable, long-duration power sources has intensified. While conventional batteries impose limitations due to their finite lifespans and bulk, a promising way to address these concerns is using ...
The Neuroscience of Dance: The Effect of Individual versus Group Dance on Mirror Neuron System Engagement
Avani Anand
30/06/2026
The neuroscience of dance has been widely explored in recent scientific research, using neuroimaging technologies to monitor the brain activity of dancers and dance observers. Dance involves multiple brain systems and large amounts of learning, directly relating to the roles of mirror neurons in imitation and ...
Meme-Aided Desensitization: Violent Meme Culture and the Decline of Adolescent Empathy
Raagavi Mohan Kumar
30/06/2026
As memes become an integral part of adolescent communication, an important question arises: what impact do these memes have on the average adolescent? Although prior literature has intensively analyzed the relationship between the consumption of violent media and the development of aggression ...
Meme-Aided Desensitization: Violent Meme Culture and the Decline of Adolescent Empathy
Raagavi Mohan Kumar
30/06/2026
As memes become an integral part of adolescent communication, an important question arises: what impact do these memes have on the average adolescent? Although prior literature has intensively analyzed the relationship between the consumption of violent media and the development of aggression ...
How does Congestion-Induced Commuting Time affect a Worker’s Time Allocation between Labour and Leisure?
Zorawar Bhinder
30/06/2026
The paper builds on a simple theoretical framework to investigate the issue of congestion as a factor influencing individual workers in terms of time allocation between work and leisure. The commuting time is taken into consideration as a fixed time endowment as part of the model, where congestion is ...
Chinese Debt-Trap Diplomacy: To what extent have Chinese lending practices influenced Sri Lanka’s foreign policy autonomy from 2005 to 2017?
Dona Yenali De Silva
30/06/2026
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been widely regarded as the world’s largest official creditor nation. In 2015, the volume of external Chinese loans exceeded that of international public loans from organisations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (Toussaint, 2024), ...
Screened Out: Exploring Censorship in Mainland China of LGBTQ Representation
Yuchen Huang (Emma)
30/06/2026
This research used a mixed-methods content analysis to collect data by first extracting visualized key verbs (forming codes) from the existing literature in the field and counting the frequencies of all codes in both original versions (FOV) and imported film versions in Mainland China (FIV).Then, a one-tailed ...
The Effect of Urban Density and Urban Form on Rainwater Capture Efficiency in Arlington, VA and Washington, DC
Anika Banerjee
30/06/2026
Rainwater harvesting is an increasingly important strategy for reducing dependence on imported water and managing urban flooding in growing cities and suburbs. However, limited city-wide research has compared rainwater capture efficiency across different building types, such as high-rises, rowhouses, and ...
Analysing which Machine Learning Algorithms Segregate Industrial Plastic Waste Most Efficently—a Comparative Study of SVM, Logistic Regression and Decision Tree Classifiers on ResNet-18 Embeddings.
Aarav Jain
30/06/2026
The accumulation of plastic waste worldwide poses critical environmental and economic challenges. An Accuracy-Speed Gap in industrial material recovery facilities exacerbates them. Manual sorting is hazardous and unsustainable, as traditional mechanical sensors often misclassify visually identical ...
Quantifying the Impact of Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Events on Stock Market Behavior Using Time-Series Deviation Modeling
Aalay Shah
30/06/2026
This paper constructs a statistical framework for measuring and comparing the market impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical events using a deviation-based scoring methodology. We collect daily adjusted closing prices for the S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite indices over the period 2007–2024 and ...
Understanding Business Strategies: Exploring Pharmaceutical Companies and Impacts of Drug Affordability and Cost in the USA
Audrey Zhang
30/06/2026
Drugs are a global necessity, and the pharmaceutical industry is in charge of pricing and managing them. There is a pertinent problem that has not faded, which is the pricing crisis, which often leads drugs to end up being inaccessible for many and inconvenient to purchase. This paper explains the causes of drug ...